Metallic clothes-line.



PATENJI'ED DEC. 25', 1906.

J. W. MONTGOMERY. METALLIC CLOTHES LINE.

APPLICATION FILED 00125, 1905.

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JAMES W. MONTGOMERY, ()F OGHLOOHNEE, GEORGIA- METALLIC CLOTHES-LINE. i

No. 839,402. I Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 25, 1906.

Application filed October 25,1905. Serial 110184349.

To all whom it may concern.- beforced in contact with each other, and thus Be it known that I, JAMES IV. MoNTGoM- exert a clamping action on the garment. ERY, a citizen of the United States, residing By having the reverse or double twist 9 at Ochlochnee, in the county of Thomas and formed in the strands and 6 at an interme- State of Georgia, have invented a new and diate point between the depending loops 7 oo useful Metallic Clothes-Line, of which the the clothes-line is not only materially following is a specification. strengthened and reinforced and the strands This invention relates to metallic clothes prevented from becoming separated, but by lines, and has for its object to provide a reason of the location of the twists the clampstrong, durable, and efficient device of this ing-jaws are disposed relatively close tocharacter in which the clothes or garments gether, so that a large proportion of the line may be quickly attached to or removed from may be utilized for supporting the garments.

the line without the employment of clothes- Attention is here called to the fact that a ins and similar auxiliary fastening devices. loop or eye 10 is formed at the juncture or A further object of the invention is to center of the coils forming each double form the line of a pair of wire strands, one of twist, so that when the clamping action of the which is provided with a series of spaced dejaws 8 becomes impaired from constant use pending loops through which the garment or the tension of the jaws may be regulated by other article is introduced to the clampinggripping the line on each side of the interjaws, that portion of the wire strands betwisted portion and subsequently inserting a tween the depending loops being intercoiled suitable tool in the loops or eyes and rotating or twisted in opposite directions to produce said tool, as will be readily understood. It spring clamping-jaws on each side of said will also be observed that the clamping-jaws loops. 8 and 8 are of unequal length, thereby adapt- W'ith these and other objects in view the ing the same for holding or supporting gar- 8o invention consists in the construction and ments and other articles of different sizes.

novel combination and arrangement of parts In operation one end of the garment or herelnafter fully describ ed, and illustrated in other article is mtroduced through a dependthe accompanying drawings. ing loop to the clamping-1 aws, which exert a i In the accompanying drawings, forming a spring clamping action on the garment and part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side eflectually prevent accidental displacement elevation of a portion of a metallic clothesof the same. In order to release or detach line constructed in accordance with my inthe garment from the line, it is merely necesvention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a portion sary to exert a downward pull on the dependof the line enlarged in order to more clearly ing loops or finger-pieces which separate the 0 show the construction, and Fig. 3 is a top clamping-jaws and permit the garment to be plan view of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top plan readily removed. view illustrating a modified form of the in- In Fig. 4 of the drawings there is illusvention. trated a modified form of the invention in Similar numerals of reference indicate corwhich the wire strands are bent into circular 5 responding parts in all the figures of the form for attachment to a table, standard, drawings. or.other support, so that the same may be The improved line consists of a pair of wire used as a display rack or holder for exhibitstrands 5 and 6, which extend from one end of ing dry goods and other articles.

the line to the other and may be attached to From the foregoing description it will be fence-posts or other suitable supports. The seen that there is provided an extremely simwire 6 is formed with a plurality of spaced ple and inexpensive device admirably adapt- Vshaped depending loops 7, through which ed for the attainment of the ends in view.

the garment or other article is introduced to Having thus fully described the invention, the clamping-jaws 8 and 8, the latter being what is claimed is 10 5 produced by reversely intercoiling or inter- 1. A clothes-line formed of a pair of wire twisting that portion of the strands 5 and 6 strands extending the entire length of the between the depending loops or finger-pieces line, one of said strands being provided with 7, as shown at 9, so that the strands of wire a plurality of depending V-shaped loops, said on each side of the intertwisted portion will strands being reversely mtertwisted or coiled 11o wire strands one of which'is provided with a at intermediate points between the dependclamping-jaws on each side of the loops, there ing loops to produce substantially parallel 1 being an eye or 100 formed in each twisted I5 clamping-jaws of unequal length, there being portion of the line or the reception of a tool eyes or loops formed at the center of each whereby the spring tension of the clampingtwisted portion of the line for the reception jaws may be regulated. of a tool whereby the spring tension of the In testimony that I claim the foregoing as clamping-jaws may be regulated. my own I have hereto affixed my signature 2o 2. A clothes-line formed of a plurality of in the presence of two witnesses.

series of spaced dependingfinger-loops, the JAMES MONTGOWRY intermediate portion of the wire strands be Witnesses: tween the depending loops being reversely I RosWELL G. CLARK, intertwisted or intercoiled to produce spring 1 T. H. PARKER. 

